A team that includes researchers from the National Institutes
of Health (NIH) has found a new way of detecting functional regions
in the human genome. The novel approach involves looking at the
three-dimen...

TED Talks Developmental disorders in children are typically diagnosed by observing behavior, but Aditi Shankardass suggests we should be looking directly at brains. She explains how one EEG technique has revealed mistaken diagnoses and transformed ch...

A while ago, I penned a fairly angry response to something circulating on the internet - the 21 Habits of Happy People. It pissed me off beyond belief, that there was an inference that if you weren't...

1. How to Lie With Statistics by Darrell Huff — A mind opening look at how statistics can be manipulated to dazzle and deceive you.
2. The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat by Oliver Sacks — Take a...

Astronomers have discovered a truly colossal black hole. It's 12 billion times as massive as our sun and about 3,000 times the size of the black hole at the center of our galaxy. What's more, the distant hole appears to have ballooned to its supermas...

Out of all the parts of your body, your brain is undoubtedly the strangest. No one really understands exactly what goes on up there, and honestly, there are some things that we probably don't want to know about. But psychologists do! With all the wei...

Nobody can ignore TED, a powerhouse of fast, mind-blowing and paradigm breaking talks that last around 20 minutes. Experts in diverse fields such as anthropology, entrepreneurship, cosmology or brain science deliver a presentation all under the motto...

Finally we have our second installment of bizarre brain-related disorders. In our first list we covered such illnesses as Stockholm Syndrome, and Stendhal Syndrome. This time we are looking at some slightly more physical disorders - many of which a...

THE BOX WAS HANDMADE FROM WOOD, FIT WITH HINGES, A HANDLE AND A PAIR OF LOCKS. FROM WHAT WAS WRITTEN HERE, IT APPEARS THAT THE AUTHOR HAD AN EXPERIENCE THAT WAS DEFINITELY NOT FROM HERE. A HAND-DRAWN TABLE OF THE ELEMENTS. THIS PATENT IS NOT FILED WI...

Aliston had given me a long list of documentaries to add in the untold truth series, but there were too many of them. So here's a list of the others that he passed on. Most of them are available free of cost to watch, the one called Food Matters and....

Ah, passive aggression. The best way to handle conflict.
Not.
There's a reason why passive-aggressive behavior gets such a bad rap. Not only is it supremely frustrating for both parties involved, but it's also incredibly unproductive to the pas...

Radiation still so intense, the area is highly dangerous. A heavy layer of radioactive ash in , India, covers a three-square mile area, ten miles west of . Scientists are investigating the site, where a housing development was being built.

I love Google Video because they have so many great documentaries free to watch. Here are my favorite 10. Some are sad, some are wacky, but they are all very informative and entertaining (full disclaimer, I own ).

Wherever life takes you, leave the place shaking, disrupted and trying to imagine what it was like before you came. Be a force for change. For pondering. And re-pondering. For love and the belief in the good of people. Go forth and be a force of the ...

I really hate people taking photos near the sculptures. When I was traveling around the Europe with my friends, I just couldn't get why people think that they have to make a photo near every sculpture…